Katy Perry used to be a backing singer for Christian nu-metal band P.O.D.
She featured in music videos and live performances
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Your support makes all the difference.Before she was writing pop bangers, Katy Perry recorded and performed with P.O.D., that awful band you’d occasionally catch on Scuzz.
It wasn’t kept a secret, but it is only coming to everyone’s attention now thanks to a spot by the succinctly-named publication, Metal Sucks.
Perry contributed vocals to P.O.D.’s track ‘Goodbye For Now’, and can be seen below towards the end of the music video for it:
She also performed with them at shows for a while - here she is doing backing vox on MTV:
This was all happening while Perry was trying to carve out a solo career. She recorded a debut album for Columbia in 2004 only to be dropped by the label as it neared completion.
After a brief stint working at an A&R company she was picked up signed to Capitol Records however, and broke through with ‘I Kissed A Girl’, which went to number one in the US Billboard Hot 100.
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